Ill-posedness of Naiver-Stokes equations and critical Besov-Morrey spaces
Qixiang Yang, Haibo Yang, Huoxiong Wu

TL;DR
This paper investigates the ill-posedness of Navier-Stokes equations, demonstrating blow-up phenomena and norm inflation in generalized initial spaces, thereby extending previous results and highlighting the equations' sensitivity to initial conditions.
Contribution
It establishes ill-posedness results for Navier-Stokes equations in broader initial spaces, independent of specific solution space choices, complementing prior findings.
Findings
Proved blow-up in the first step of Picard's scheme.
Demonstrated norm inflation in generalized solution spaces.
Extended ill-posedness results beyond previously known spaces.
Abstract
The blow up phenomenon in the first step of the classical Picard's scheme was proved in this paper. For certain initial spaces, Bourgain-Pavlovi\'c and Yoneda proved the ill-posedness of the Navier-Stokes equations by showing the norm inflation in certain solution spaces. But Chemin and Gallagher said the space seems to be optimal for some solution spaces best chosen. In this paper, we consider more general initial spaces than Bourgain-Pavlovi\'c and Yoneda did and establish ill-posedness result independent of the choice of solution space. Our result is a complement of the previous ill-posedness results on Navier-Stokes equations.
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Ill-posedness of Navier-Stokes equations and critical Besov-Morrey spaces
Qixiang Yang
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China.
,
Haibo Yang
Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China.
and
Huoxiong Wu
School of Mathematical sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen Fujian, 361005, China.
Abstract.
The blow up phenomenon in the first step of the classical Picard’s scheme is proved in this paper. For certain initial spaces , Bourgain-Pavlović and Yoneda proved the ill-posedness of the Navier-Stokes equations by showing the norm inflation in the spaces . But Chemin and Gallagher said the space seems to be optimal, if one replace by some solution spaces best chosen. In this paper, we use Meyer wavelets to construct different initial data in more general initial spaces than those studied by Bourgain-Pavlović and Yoneda and establish new ill-posedness result, which is independent of the choice of solution space. Our result is a nice complement of the previous ill-posedness results on Navier-Stokes equations.
Key words and phrases:
Navier-Stokes equations, Meyer wavelets, Besov-Morrey spaces, ill-posedness, blow up.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
35Q30; 76D03; 42B35; 46E30
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11571261, 11771358, 11871101).
1. Introduction and main result
We consider the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
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where and denote the velocity vector field and the pressure of fluid at the point respectively. While is a given initial velocity vector field. Cannone [2] established the well-posedness of (1.1) for Besov spaces, Koch-Tataru [10] obtained the well-posedness of (1.1) for . Besov spaces and are special critical Besov-Morrey spaces. Later on, Li-Xiao-Yang [13] showed the well-posedness for more general critical Besov-Morrey spaces. In this paper, we consider the rest critical Besov-Morrey spaces, and we will show blow up phenomenon of (1.1) in the first step of the classical Picard’s scheme for these initial spaces.
The solutions of the above Cauchy problem can be obtained via the integral equation:
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where
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The equation (1.2) can be solved by a fixed-point method whenever the convergence is suitably defined in certain function spaces. For any , denote
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For belongs to some initial space , denote
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where belongs to some space . To prove
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the traditional method is to prove the following conclusion is true:
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The above iteration process convergence for small enough. Such solutions of (1.2) are called mild solutions of (1.1). The notion of such a mild solution was pioneered by Kato-Fujita [9] in 1960s. During the latest decades, many important results about mild solutions to (1.1) have been established. See, for example, Cannone [2, 3], Germin-Pavlovic-Staffilani [6], Giga-Miyakawa [7], Lemarié [11, 12], Kato [8], Koch-Tataru [10], Wu [23, 24, 25, 26] and the references therein.
Morrey spaces were introduced in 1938 by Morrey [19]. Many authors extended them to two kinds of oscillation spaces: Besov-Morrey spaces and Triebel-Lizorkin-Morrey spaces. They considered the well-posedness results for initial value in generalized Morrey spaces, see [13, 14, 15, 28] etc. In this paper, we consider the ill-posedness in critical Besov-Morrey spaces. Choose
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Let be a cube with sides parallel to the coordinate axes, centered at and with side length , , and . For and , let be a positive constant large enough. For arbitrary function , let be the set of polynomial functions of order less than .
Now we introduce the definition of Besov-Morrey spaces which includs Besov spaces, Morrey spaces, and spaces etc (see [15, 32]).
Definition 1.1**.**
Given and . Besov-Morrey spaces are defined as follows:
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Critical spaces occupied a significant place for Navier-Stokes equations (1.1). For the above oscillation spaces, according to Lemma 2.6, if , then they are critical spaces. Further, one pays attention to the largest critical spaces. According to Lemma 2.7, are the relative large spaces among the above critical oscillation spaces.
For initial values in some critical initial spaces , one has proved norm inflation in solution spaces . In fact, Bourgain-Pavlović [1] considered integral Bloch space . For , Yoneda [31] considered Besov spaces and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces which are special Besov-Morrey spaces . Chemin and Gallagher [4] said the space seems to be optimal, if one replace by certain solution space well chosen. For all the critical Besov-Morrey spaces, according to Lemmas 2.7 and 2.8, only or or can not be contained in . For these three classes of spaces, we will prove the equation (1.6) is not true.
Definition 1.2**.**
For initial data , if one can not find such that and the equation (1.6) is true, then we say the classical Picard’s process can not be applied to the initial value space for the Navier-Stokes equations (1.1).
We will show that the classical Picard’s process can not be applied to the above three classes function spaces in this paper. Let
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Precisely, our main results can be formulated as follows..
Theorem 1.3**.**
For any , there exists satisfying
* .*
* *
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* belongs to outside some ball:*
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* ,*
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In fact, for , we have and
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We remark that all the published ill-posedness results of (1.1) depended on the choice of solution spaces. But our ill-posedness result does not depend on the choice of solution spaces.
Remark 1.4*.*
(i) The meaning of ill-posedness in [1] and [31] is different to which in this paper. For any , Bourgain-Pavlović [1] and Yoneda [31] constructed some special periodic functions in some special critical Besov-Morrey space such that . They proved the norm of solution satisfying that Hence there is norm inflation phenomenon in the space . It is easy to see that the quantity . That is to say, their results depend on the choice of solution spaces.
But in our paper, we proved that Our result can show blow-up phenomenon in the first step of the classic Picard iteration and our ill-posedness result does not depend on the choice of solution spaces. Hence our result is a complement of the previous ill-posedness results on Navier-Stokes equations.
(ii) Cui [5] extended the results in [1] and [31] to some logarithmic Besov spaces. Cui’s skills are based on refining the arguments of Wang [21] and Yoneda [31]. All these ill-posedness results depend on the choice of solution spaces.
(iii) Besov-Morrey spaces can be found in [13, 15, 32]. In this paper, we consider only the critical Besov-Morrey spaces. Cui’s Besov type spaces are logrithmically refined Besov space which are not critical spaces. Further, our skills can be applied also to Cui’s spaces.
(iv) We don’t impose any restriction on solution spaces in Theorem 1.3. Our initial value satisfies , which is located at the original and should have global weak solution. But our result shows that we can not apply the classical Picard’s process to get any solution for any .
To consider the blow-up phenomena of nonlinear term, we have made many preparations.
Remark 1.5*.*
In [13], [15] and [16], we have considered semigroup structure and bilinear structure of non-linear terms. In [29], we have introduced parameter wavelet to control the influence of low frequency. In [30], Yang-Zhu considered the multiplier operators and showed how the product of two functions produce the blow-up phenomena.
This paper classify all the critical Besov-Morrey spaces into two class of spaces:
Remark 1.6*.*
By [13], have well-posedness property. By [10], has well-posedness. Hence, by Lemma 2.8, or or all have well-posedness property. That is to say, **for all the critical Besov-Morrey spaces ** , according to Lemma 2.8 in the next section, only the three classes of spaces in our Theorem 1.3 cause ill-posedness.
By the equation (4.2), the value of left hand of the equation (1.11) is some multiple of the integration of correlation functions defined in (3.11). We will use wavelets, vaguelets and the special property of Gauss function to prove the Theorem 1.3.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows: In section 2, we will present some preliminaries about Meyer wavelets, vaguelets and Calderón-Zygmund operators, and we will further construct some special functions in Besov-Morrey spaces. In section 3, we will compute some integration related to Gauss functions and present some properties of two flows related to the equation (1.11). Finally, we will prove Theorem 1.3 in Section 4.
2. Wavelets, special functions and operators
2.1. Meyer wavelets
First of all, we indicate that we will use tensorial product real valued orthogonal Meyer wavelets. We refer the reader to [17, 22, 27] for further information. Let be an even function in with
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Write
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Then is an even function in . Clearly,
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Let . For any , define by . For and , let . and distribution , denote . Furthermore, we put
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Then, the following result is well-known.
Lemma 2.1**.**
The Meyer wavelets form an orthogonal basis in . Consequently, for any , the following wavelet decomposition holds in the convergence sense:
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2.2. Properties of Besov-Morrey spaces
We recall first wavelet characterization of oscillation spaces (see [13, 15, 32]). Denote . We have
Lemma 2.2**.**
Given and .
* *
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* *
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Denote . For , take
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and denote
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By wavelet characterization Lemma 2.2, we have
Corollary 2.3**.**
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As a generalization of Morrey spaces, Besov-Morrey spaces cover many important function spaces, for example, Sobolev spaces, Besov spaces, Morrey spaces, , -spaces and so on. For an overview, we refer to Li-Xiao-Yang [13], Lin-Yang [15],Yang [27] and Yuan-Sickel-Yang [32].
Lemma 2.4**.**
* If , , then the above Besov-Morrey spaces become the relative Besov spaces .*
* If and , then .*
* For , .*
Critical spaces occupied a significant place for Navier-Stokes equations (1.1). If is a solution of (1.1) with initial value , we replace , and by and , respectively. Then is a solution of (1.1) with initial value .
Definition 2.5**.**
If for any , then is called to be a critical space.
For the function spaces defined above, if , then they are critical spaces.
Lemma 2.6**.**
For and , are critical spaces.
For , the critical Besov-Morrey spaces have the following inclusion relation:
Lemma 2.7**.**
Given .
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The above lemma shows that are the relative large spaces among the critical Besov-Morrey spaces. For critical Besov-Morrey spaces , by their wavelet characterization in Lemma 2.2, we have
Lemma 2.8**.**
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2.3. Vaguelets and Calderón-Zygmund operators
Now we introduce some preliminaries on Calderón-Zygmund operators, see [17] and [20]. For , let be a smooth function such that
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In this paper, we assume that is a large enough constant.
Definition 2.9**.**
A linear operator is said to be a Calderón-Zygmund operator in if
- (1)
is continuous from to ;
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There exists a kernel satisfying (2.4) and for ,
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- (3)
and .
According to Schwartz kernel theorem, the kernel of a linear continuous operator is only a distribution in . Meyer-Yang [18] proved the continuity of Calderón-Zygmund operators on Besov spaces and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. Lin-Yang [15] considered the relative continuity on Besov-Morrey spaces. In fact, we have
Lemma 2.10**.**
Given and , then
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In this paper, we will use Calderón-Zygmund operators generated by vagulettes. Denote and . We have
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Denote . Then are vaguelets generated by the derivatives of Gauss functions. The definition of vaguelets can be found in Meyer [17]. For , define
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It is easy to see
Lemma 2.11**.**
For , we have
* ;*
* the divergence of is zero.*
By Corollary 2.3 and Lemma 2.10, we have
Corollary 2.12**.**
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For , are distributions concentrated on the cube and are good functions outside of the cube . Particulary,
Lemma 2.13**.**
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Proof.
Denote and for , denote . For and , , we have
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If , then
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For , we have
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Combine the equations from (2.7) to (2.10), for any , , we have
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Hence, for any , , we have
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The last equation implies the equation (2.6). ∎
3. Gauss function and two flows related
In this section, we first consider four integrations related to Gauss function, then we consider some properties of two flows which will be used to consider the blow up phenomenon in the next section.
3.1. Four integrations relative to Gauss function
In this subsection, we compute four integrations related to Gauss function and their derivatives which will be used to compute the expression of two flows in the next subsection. For any , , and , denote
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Then we have
Lemma 3.1**.**
For , we have
* ;*
* ;*
* ;*
* .*
Proof.
(i) We regroup the function inside the integration and get
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Then, by changing variable, we have
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Since , we get
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(ii) We make variable substitution . We have then and get
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Note that and , we obtain
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(iii) Regrouping the function inside the integration, we get
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Then a variable substitution implies that
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Applying , we get
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(iv) Regrouping the function inside the integration, we get
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Further, . Based on the fact , similar to the above (iii), we have
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∎
For any , and , denote
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We have
Lemma 3.2**.**
* Symmetry. *
* Anti-symmetry. *
* Zero point. *
* Positivity. and if , then *
* Negativity. , if *
Proof.
Applying the expression in Lemma 3.1, we can get the above results. The details are omitted. ∎
3.2. Expression of two flow functions
In this subsection, we compute the expression of two flow functions. The kernel of operator is . Let . We first consider the flow . The kernel of is
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By Lemma 3.1, we have
Lemma 3.3**.**
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Proof.
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∎
Next we consider another flow. Let
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The kernel of is By Lemma 3.1, we have
Lemma 3.4**.**
For , we have
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Hence,
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Proof.
The conclusions of Lemma 3.4 are obtained by the following equality:
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∎
3.3. Some properties of flows
In this subsection, we consider the following four properties of the above two flow functions: symmetry, monotonicity, positivity and zero point. To present well the symmetry properties of flow functions , we introduce the following notations:
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For , we have
Lemma 3.5**.**
* Positivity. *
* Anti-symmetry. *
* Symmetry. *
To present well the properties of flow functions , we introduce the following notations:
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For , we have
Lemma 3.6**.**
* Anti-symmetry. *
* Symmetry. *
* Zero point. *
* Positivity. , if *
* Negativity. , if *
Proof.
Applying the properties in Lemma 3.2 and applying the expression of flow functions in Lemma 3.3, we can get the above results. The details are omitted. ∎
For , denote and . For , defined in (3.2) and defined in (3.4), denote . For , denote
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Then
Lemma 3.7**.**
For , we have
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Hence,
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Proof.
(i) For and , we have
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That is to say,
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Hence we get (3.5).
(ii) By applying Lemmas 3.2 and 3.6, according to (3.5), we have
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(iii) Observe that
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By (3.5), we have
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By Lemma 3.2, we have
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By equations (3.8), (3.9) and (3.10), we get (3.7) is true.
∎
3.4. Correlation function and non-integrability
Let be the correlation function between function and function , i.e.,
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Then we have
Theorem 3.8**.**
**
Proof.
Denote and Then
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By the equation (3.7) of , we have
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∎
Theorem 3.9**.**
For any and , there exists such that
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Proof.
By (3.12),
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By equations (3.6), (3.8), (3.9) and (3.10), for and , we have
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Further, if and , then
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Hence, for and ,
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Consequently,
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∎
Theorem 3.10**.**
**
Proof.
For any , there exists such that . Then,
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∎
4. Proof of Theorem 1.2
Proof.
We define as follows:
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According to Lemmas 2.11, 2.13 and Corollary 2.12, we have
- (i)
;
- (ii)
for any ,
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(1-\phi(x-\frac{3}{2}\vec{e}))u_{0}\in\big{(}{\mathcal{S}}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\big{)}^{n}.
By definition of , we get
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Hence,
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Invoking Theorem 3.10 leads to
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This completes the proof of Theorem 1.2. ∎
Acknowledgement: The authors would like thank professor Yves Meyer and professor Chaojiang Xu for their interesting of this work and many useful advices.
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